and it's just like congress, when we had the surplus under bill clinton, republicans couldn't wait to cut the taxes and send the money back home and the democrats said there's lots of unfinished business and we should continue on that, and we know how it went there, and i'm not take sides, but we know how it went there. >> we know how wall street likes sir pluses. >> yeah, and i agree with dave. he is being cool here, because we don't know what the next four years is going to be like in the city. already they tried to hire more police officers. a lot of money going into -- we talked about this last week, when we close the schools you will need extra money for restoration. i think the mayor is doing the right thing. sit on it for a while and see what the future will bring. >> this has to be taken into the context of the wall street journal report, and there was a softening of the economy, and there's a lot of talk about d.c. being recession proof, but in the context of who administered the funds congress has to approve what the district does, and congress puts restrictions on they have